Lacan

American  

[luh-kahn, ‑-kahn] / ləˈkɑ̃, ‑ˈkɑn /

noun

1. Jacques, 1901–81, French philosopher and psychoanalyst.

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Lacan British  

/ lakɑ̃ /

noun

1. Jacques (ʒak). 1901–81, French psychoanalyst, who reinterpreted Freud in terms of structural linguistics: an important influence on poststructuralist thought

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Example Sentences

A pair of French guards, Carla Leite and Leila Lacan, went next to Dallas and Connecticut, respectively.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024

Jacques Lacan, the French psychoanalytic theorist, wrote, “Desire is a relation of being to lack.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2021

Mining personal experience, cultural references, scientific studies and philosophical sources, her methodical yet kaleidoscopic arguments invoke Jacques Lacan, the mirror test, Edith Wharton, Wild America, intimacy, intrusion, Audre Lorde, addiction, Greek myths and the panopticon.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2021

She writes about studying in Paris in the early 1970s, when she got to know the controversial French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2021

In olden times they did not lack a term proper to their own language by which they expressed it, as Lacan or Gat for the men, and Dayang for the women.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen